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Student Teams That Get Results
Teaching Tools for the Differentiated Classroom

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December 2009 | 208 pages | Corwin
Busy teachers struggle daily with the demands of increased accountability and the need to develop skill and proficiency in diverse groups of learners. Focused on the power of student teams to advance learning, this book shows how students working together and expressing ideas with one another can clarify their thinking and deepen their understanding of essential concepts.

Combining effective grouping strategies with other research-based practices, this resource for the differentiated classroom demonstrates how teachers can raise achievement and critical thinking by showing students how to practice three key skills: attentive listening, accepting others' ideas, and disagreeing with ideas rather than people.

Student Teams That Get Results shows teachers how to prepare students for deeper and more successful thinking on assessments using an innovative collection of best-practice teaching tools that help learners:

- Scaffold critical layers of meaning

- Generalize and infer

- Integrate content

- Identify patterns

- Increase adaptive and analytic reasoning

This book offers more than 100 reproducible lesson planners, assessment tools, checklists, graphic organizers, and more. Each teaching tool—used as presented or customized to meet learners' unique needs—includes a reproducible template, examples of the teaching tool in action across grade levels and content areas, and a brief how-to-use-it description.

 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
1. Introduction
 
2. Teaming to Learn
Introduction

 
Community Circle

 
Find Someone Who

 
Four Corner Cards

 
Random Partners

 
T-Chart, Y-Chart

 
Graffiti

 
Think-Pair-Share Say and Switch

 
 
3. Sharing Knowledge and Skills
Introduction

 
A-B-C Conversations

 
3-2-1

 
Jigsaw Methods

 
Concept Formation

 
Content Dialog

 
Note-Taking and Summarizing

 
Wallpaper Poster

 
 
4. Integrating and Applying Learning
Introduction

 
Four Squares for Creativity

 
Point of View

 
iREAP

 
Question Cubing

 
Cause and Effect

 
Right Angle

 
Synectics

 
 
5. Conclusion
 
References
 
Index

Supplements

Supplemental Resources Website
This site contains graphics and templates to support your work with to improve student achievement for a variety of learners. Please use these in your classrooms to promote both great student collaboration and improve critical thinking skills. Refer to Student Teams That Get Results book directions on how to use these tools. The open-ended and often choice based nature of the tools provides many models of differentiation opportunities. Create your own content specific tools using these templates and the directions in the book as a guide. We have designed these tools to facilitate your instruction and help you create options for powerful learning in your classroom.

"A valuable resource for all educators that provides practical and easy-to-use templates and clear instructions, with research-based instructional strategies that support collaborative learning in student teams."

Sue McAdamis, Director of Professional Development
Rockwood School District, Eureka, MO

"An excellent resource that provides tools to increase student engagement, critical thinking, and collaboration. Districts or teachers who utilize these strategies can experience increased student achievement!"

Troy McCarley, Associate Superintendent for Campus Development
Pasadena Independent School District, CA

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